[OS X TeX] New TeX i-Package in the *EXPERIMENTAL* i-Directory

[Jean-Claude DE SOZA]

TL 2005 installed, no problem so far and typesetting is very fast.
Thank you.
Jean-Claude DE SOZA

Le 8 sept. 05 à 01:09, Gerben Wierda a écrit :

> As we are closing in on the TL2005 release and as I am working on  
> improving the package, I would really like to see some heavy  
> testing of the just now released i-Package for TeX. Some special  
> important issues:
>
> - TL2005 should be tested mainly, but TL2004 and TL2003 (ppc only)  
> are available as well. TL2005 is based on TL as of Sep 7 (very  
> recent). This is release candidate material with pdfTeX 1.30.
>
> - This package's binaries have been entirely created on OS X 10.4.  
> I would like to know if these work on OS X 10.2 and OS X 10.3 (10.3  
> tested locally and that seems OK). I *really* would like 10.2 reports.
>
> - Important: The altpdftex scripts have been deprecated and made  
> non-functional. This change was announced to the frontend  
> maintainers last year (so it should have been incorporated since).  
> Instead of
>
>     altpdflatex foo
>
> you now say
>
>     simpdftex latex foo
>
> or (.e.g.)
>
>     simpdftex latex --maxpfb foo
>
> (format first, switches after) you might need to change that in  
> your preferences yourself. The reason for this is flexibility and  
> less clutter.
>
> As much has changed, the download is stiff. The complete package  
> now is around 200MB (3 releases, 2 of which for 2 architectures).  
> Luckily, if you select a basic install, the download is roughly  
> stil the same as it was. A full install, installs both i686 and  
> powerpc binaries so you can easily sync/share/copy your TeX. This  
> is slighly larger han it was. Fattening the i-Package gets you the  
> entire 200MB.
>
> G
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